MySpace & Facebook Musician Tips

Video Transcript

"One of the most important things that you can do on your website is to link to other places where people can find you. What am I talking about? I'm talking about MySpace, I'm talking about the host of FaceBook and all the other types of places where you can find groups of people who are already looking for music or who are looking for groups to join. If you don't use those different things to help you promote yourself, you're a fool. Now it doesn't take a whole lot of work to get in to MySpace, all I have to do is have an internet connection and maybe you have to have a little bit of processing power since they tend to flash a lot of images and videos and things at you. Same thing with FaceBook, FaceBook is maybe a little easier. But the problem is, is with FaceBook sometime you can't put music up there, whatever. But these guys give you ways to put your music up, let people listen to it, they get to show your pictures up on there and there are people already looking for that stuff. So what you want to do is make sure that you let people on your website know that you've got one of those accounts. Then you also want to make sure that your account on each of these servers looks pretty cool. What I have is I've got one of my fans who I call him my friend because, well, he is. And he takes care of my MySpace page and he takes care of any other pages like that for me cause he loves that stuff and he likes us you know, so he does it for free. And it doesn't take a whole lot of work, I just tell him hey can you get some new photos up there of us and he goes ya, sure. And then we link in all of my calender dates to our MySpace page. We link in all of our, all of our merchandise, our videos, all the other things that you could have on your website we link it in to our MySpace page so that people can go from one to the other really quickly. Use them, it's great to find new friends, I've gotten new shows out of it, I've gotten deals out of it that people, constantly, I mean you have to wade through some crap, it's true, but it really is worth it in the long run because people want to find out more about you."